Iranian inflation was already running over 90% amid mass unemployment and other crises, leaving the regime increasingly unable to pay its regular army.
The heat beams down on me. It’s another blistering hot day in Las Vegas, the last place you would expect SpaceXAI to host a hackathon, an event where programmers see what they can build in a few hours. I lift large packs of soda up the stairs — SpaceXAI hasn’t provided volunteer organizers with a […]
In the modern healthcare debate, policymakers obsess over top-down metrics: capping insurance premiums, expanding digital health infrastructure, and mandating electronic health records. Yet, in this relentless pursuit of administrative efficiency, the system is actively destroying the invisible architecture that keeps medicine functional: the human connection. As healthcare is increasingly mediated by corporate mandates and automated […]
Conservatives for decades have carried the pro-family mantle against a Left that is sometimes radical in its antipathy to marriage and parenthood. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the preeminent elected official on the Left, has suggested that it’s immoral to have children because of climate, and that the parent-child relationship is itself “carceral” (because of timeouts). […]
For years, Latin American politics seemed trapped in a familiar cycle. The Left promised social justice. The Right promised stability. Governments changed, parties rebranded, presidents came and went — yet the underlying political architecture often remained remarkably resilient. That era is ending. Across Latin America, voters are increasingly challenging political establishments that once appeared permanent. […]
President Donald Trump on July 16 delivered a nationally televised, primetime address highlighting security gaps in U.S. voter registration databases and other election infrastructure. Figuring prominently in the president’s speech was newly declassified information on China’s acquisition of millions of U.S. voter registration records. As reported in the Washington Examiner: “A cache of declassified intelligence […]
Debate has always been a crucial part of any democratic system. Even the Founding Fathers, including John Adams, argued that a republic could only survive if its people were educated enough, and free enough, to argue through their disagreements rather than have decisions imposed on them from above. That idea still holds. What’s changed is […]
